And goodbye, Mr. Hill.
It won't surprise me if Hill has an execution date by the end of the week.
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"Y'all be makin shit up" ~ Markeith Loyd
Same with Andrew Allen Cook. He's exhausted his appeals as well..
Now just Arkansas, Tennessee, California, North Carolina, and Alabama need to fix their execution protocols
We could have quite a few X-night chats if these states finally resolved their issues. Why is Alabama's taking so long? It has been over a year for sure.
Well it looks like Georgia is one state thats cleared way for executions to resume. Now just Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, California and North Carolina.
Tennessee's courts have cleared the way. But, drug supply problems have occurred and I don't know if that is going to cause more litigation once they select a new protocol. Kentucky is moving along. They have to get the injunction lifted and then search for drugs to carry it out.
I don't know why they don't just use the one drug protocol every other state is using. I forgot to mention Missouri as well. All these challenges to L.I are nothing but a delay process. These inmates are just trying to delay the inevitable and prolong their lives as much as they casn.
2 Ga. executions scheduled following court ruling
Georgia officials on Tuesday ordered February execution dates for two inmates, a day after the state Supreme Court upheld a switch to a new drug used in lethal injections.
The Georgia Department of Corrections said that Warren Lee Hill's date has been set for Feb. 19, and Andrew Allen Cook's for Feb. 21.
A legal challenge by Hill's lawyers to the state's new injection protocol put a temporary halt to carrying out any death sentences since last summer.
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for executions to resume when it rejected a challenge by Hill's lawyers to the state's switch from a three-drug mixture to a single drug.
Hill was sentenced to death in Lee County for the 1990 beating death of fellow inmate Joseph Handspike. Authorities say he used a board studded with nails to bludgeon Handspike while he slept as other prisoners watched and pleaded with Hill to stop.
A Monroe County jury sentenced Cook to death for the 1995 slayings of two Mercer University students. Grant Patrick Hendrickson and Michele Lee Cartagena were shot several times as they sat in a car at Lake Juliette.
Cook wasn't charged until more than two years later. He confessed to his father, a Macon FBI agent who ended up testifying at his son's trial.
Brian Kammer, an attorney for the state capital defender's office, is representing both Lee and Cook. He did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Tuesday afternoon.
In challenging the injection protocol, Hill's attorneys argued prison officials violated state procedures by failing to hold a public hearing before changing execution methods. The state Supreme Court ruled that switching the drugs doesn't fall under the Georgia Administrative Procedure Act, and therefore does not require public hearings.
The ruling lifted the stay the court had granted Hill in July, hours before he was scheduled to be put to death.
Georgia changed the drug composition during a nationwide shortage of pancuronium bromide, one of the three that had been used.
http://www.ajc.com/news/ap/georgia/2...-ruling/nWGby/
Well this is one state that has resolved it's lethal injection issues. Just Missouri, Arkansas, North Carolina, California, Alabama, and Tennessee. Although according to reports, Tennessee has resolved its L.I issues, they have yet to find an alternative drug, most likely which will bring up new challenges
Georgia Department of Corrections
Brian Owens, Commissioner
Director of Public Affairs
Joan Heath
Contact: Office of Public Affairs (478) 992-5219
STATE OF GEORGIA
For Immediate Release
Execution Date Set for Lee County Murderer, Warren Lee Hill to be executed on Tuesday, February 19
Forsyth - The Lee County Superior Court has ordered the execution of convicted murderer Warren Lee Hill. The court ordered the Georgia Department of Corrections to carry out the execution Feb. 19-26. Commissioner Brian Owens has set the date for Feb. 19 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson at 7 p.m.
Hill was convicted of the 1991 murder of Joseph Handspike. If executed, Hill will be the 30th inmate put to death by lethal injection.
Media interested in a picture of Cook and a listing of his crimes may go to the GDC website www.dcor.state.ga.us
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